Congress Suspending the Rules to rush through bill for National Citizen Data System: HR4174

Let Reps Trey Gowdy (bill co-sponsor), Jim Jordan, Jody Hice, Justin Amash, Thomas Massie, William Hurd, Ron DeSantis, and members of the House Oversight Comm. know that you don’t want this bill, don’t like that they passed it on voice vote. Tell them to vote NO when HR4174 is in the House.  (scheduled this week) and request that a ROLL CALL VOTE be held on House Floor.   We want to know who votes for this bill.
https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/

HR4174 Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (FEPA) would create a national data system; it has BI-PARTISAN support but it changes and repeals existing law.

HR4174 repeals E-Govt act of 2002  44 USC 3501,  which contains the Computer Security Act of 1987.  Then amends Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002– whose purpose was to limit federals agencies that collect data for statistical purposes from using the data for any other purpose.  

Let Paul Ryan (House Speaker and bill sponsor) know that this bill HR4174 SHOULD NOT BE RUSHED THROUGH, WITH RULES SUSPENDED. *We oppose this very controversial bill, want it re-calendared, with rules and roll call vote.* We oppose a national database, especially for students. This national data system threatens individuals’ privacy

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) have companion FEPA bills (HR4174 and S2046: Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act) that will create a national student data warehouse. Parents will not be able to opt their child out of this national database that will expand access to researchers, private companies, nonprofits and government agencies.

• Tell Speaker Ryan and Senator Murray and members of Congress NO National Student Database. NO to HR4174 and S2046: Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act.  Parents should have consent before their child’s personal information is shared. This open access to information should exclude personal student information. 202-225-3031 @SpeakerRyan ; (202) 224-2621  @PattyMurray

Instead, Congress should restore FERPA to its pre-2011 status and restore parental consent before sharing students’ personal data. Researchers would still have open access to aggregate data; if they need personal information, they would have to get parent consent and approval. Ask your legislator: Whose data is it-the student’s, the corporations’, or the government’s? Data should belong to the student who generated it.

Parents should have consent before data is shared. School databases are already being hacked by cyber terrorists.  The safest way to protect data is to not collect it in the first place. Imagine the cost and security risks of a national database.

Tell Congress NO on HR4174, the bill to create a national data system; tell Congress no more data.